Frank S. Zhou

Crimson staff writer

Frank S. Zhou

Staff writer Frank S. Zhou ’26 is the founding host and co-producer of Newstalk, The Harvard Crimson’s flagship weekly news podcast streamed in all 50 states and 110+ countries. He is the Digital Strategist of The Harvard Crimson’s 151st Guard and leads The Crimson’s Audience Engagement, Social Media, and Newsletters teams.

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Harvard and Cambridge Police Man Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine Rally at Massachusetts Hall

Harvard University Police Department and Cambridge Police Department officers keep watch in front of Massachusetts Hall, home to the office of the Harvard president, as more than 200 Harvard affiliates protest the University’s decision to place 20 participants of the pro-Palestine encampment on involuntary leave in May 2024. More than 300 pages of emails obtained by The Crimson via a public records request show how the Harvard University and Cambridge Police Departments alerted each other to protest activity in the months following Oct. 7.


Passerby at Royale Nightclub around Midnight

A passerby walks past Royale Nightclub around midnight last Monday. Nicholas Diego Leanos, a rapper known as “Lil Xan,” repeatedly struck and kicked a Harvard College sophomore in the face during the Harvard-Yale pregame at the Royale nightclub on Nov. 23, prompting the Boston Police Department to investigate an alleged aggravated assault.


Royale Nightclub at Midnight

A final club-hosted Harvard-Yale tailgate at Royale became a fiasco as scores of students were left stranded in the rain. The company in charge of ticketing for a mismanaged Harvard-Yale pregame at the Boston nightclub said it would not reimburse most students for their tickets, as the promoter and the venue blamed each other for the botched event.